The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-25
OPENLY AvowEp CANDIDATES.


OPENLY AvowED CANDIDATES.
The openly avowed candidates for the
Senate, and the men who will suppor.
Mr.. Sherman, are Foraker, Foster, Butter.
worth and Mckinley. They know that
SO long as Mr.. Sherman desires to remain
in the Senate the Ohio people viii! keep
him there, and that their only hops is in i
uniting to push him up instead Of pushing
him out. ..1I .
1t may bo said upon tho best authority,
that Governor Foraker does not desire TIL,
Vice Presidency, but would like 10 repre-
sent his State in the United States Senate,
and look from that standpoint into the fu.
ture; and that he recognizes that the part
Of wisdom is to seek that place, and by
doing his best Tor Sherman, get him out
Of his way, and possibly have q warm
friend in tho next President. DoI,
In conversation Governor Foraker de-
MES that he has any arrangement with
Blaine, and declares that he will not make
any, and that he will be for Sherman
whether he goes as delegate.at.large, dig
trict delegate, or upon the outside. This
o.
one he says he will hold.
Ex-Governor Foster is not as much OF q
political factor in the State as he once was
when he defeated General Thomaa Ewing
in 1879 forthe Governorship,by plurality
Of over seventeen Thousand votes. He
was the political ideal of the party, and
nothing short OF the Presidency was pre-.
dicted for him. ~.
When Garfield was nominated at Chi
cago the fact added to Fosters power and
prestige, and up to the time OF Gartield's
death he was looked upon as a power be-
hind the throne. He had served with dis
tinguiBhed SUCCESS in National affairs for
eight years, but was comparatively un-
familiar with State politics.
The passage Of the prohibition amend
ment in Iowa and tho election OF st. John
in Kansas, misled him as to the drift of
opinion, and he believing that great pro-
hibition wavewas about to sweep over tho
country, and that it was the proper wave
to mount, took that course. He turned
away the aold German Republican vote,
which ia the balance Of power in Ohio;
turned tho vote OF Hamilton county from
5000 Republican in one election to 10000
Democratic in the next; turning himself
out OF office and power, and turned
Democratic Administration in. 1t should
be said that very policy in dealiRg with
the liquor question that retired Foster and
his party in 1854 is now the established
and successful policy Of the party in the
State.
There ia apparent friendIiness between
Sherman and Foster, but it ia not more
than skin and policy deep. They do not
particularly like each other personally.
MIR. Foster has always been Blaine man,
and in the Convention Of 1850 expected to
be second upon the ticket ii Blaine was
nominated. He is highly ambitious to
become Senator, and no doubt will very
earnestly support Sherman next year.
In the Convention OF 1880 Garfield and
Foster, who were elected delegates-at-
large, as Sherman boomers, roomed to-
gether in the Same hotel in Chicago. Itis
believed that MIR. Sherman never felt
quite satisfied in his mind rs to the loyalty
Of their support, though he had himself
to blame Tor having the worat crowd of
antediluvian workers ever seen in
National Convention then. s5
These gentlemen were Ex-Governor Den.
nison, Brother.in.law Moulton, General
Fearing, General Warner Bateman, B. j.
Loomis and others. 1t is known that q
telegram was sent from the Garfield. .Fos-
ter room, three days before the nomina.
ton, saying: "General Garfield will be
the nominee Of this Convention" The
telegram was submitted to General Gar
field and he consented to its being cent.
After the Convention there was very
sharp correspondence between Mr.. Sher-
man and Governor Foster, which left
some Gears, but resulted in the declaration
from Senator Sherman that ho believed
Foster and Garfield had been true to hin,
but had been unable to stem the tide OF
enthusiasm for Garfield. Just after this
correspondence Foster became a candidate
for the Senate against Sherman.